CVE-2025-4050: 
vulnerability analysis and mitigation

CVE-2025-4050 is a security vulnerability discovered in Google Chrome's DevTools component, affecting versions prior to 136.0.7103.59. The vulnerability was reported by an anonymous researcher on April 11, 2025, and was classified with a Medium severity rating by the Chromium security team (Chrome Release). The issue involves an out-of-bounds memory access that could potentially lead to heap corruption when a user is convinced to perform specific UI gestures on a crafted HTML page (NVD).

The vulnerability is classified as CWE-787 (Out-of-bounds Write) and has received a CVSS 3.1 Base Score of 8.8 (HIGH) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H. This indicates that the vulnerability can be exploited remotely, requires low attack complexity, needs no privileges, but does require user interaction (NVD, Palo Alto).

The vulnerability could potentially lead to heap corruption, which might result in arbitrary code execution, denial of service, or information disclosure. The high CVSS score indicates significant potential impact on the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the affected system (Debian Security).

Google has addressed this vulnerability in Chrome version 136.0.7103.59. Users are advised to update their Chrome installations to this version or later. The fix has also been incorporated into various distributions, including Debian's chromium packages version 136.0.7103.59-2~deb12u2 (Chrome Release, Debian Security).